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Host of Literative, a new podcast for active literacy, engaging with others' words so we can find our own. Join us at https://shows.acast.com/literative Passionate advocate for libraries, educators, intellectual freedom and the First Amendment.
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
Costco is now demanding that Trump pay them back for his tariffs so they can refund all of their customers.
I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"
The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases.
We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.
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Haiku book reviews. Love it!
The older I get, the more brilliant Octavia Butler becomes. Thanks for the reminder that anytime is a good time to (re)read her!
Just Finished: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler 📚💙
I looove Octavia Butler. I've read a few of these stories before, but reading them all in one go was a fun experience. I also really liked the essays on writing included in this collection.
Once again Republicans show their hypocrisy.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
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#WolffBites: Gasoline prices in US rise 11% over last week as Trump's war on Iran forces and enables oil companies to raise prices. Rising gasoline prices then do same for all other prices of products needing oil or gas as inputs to their production.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/b...
A worker pruning olive trees
"Jorge" is hard at work pruning olives trees in the San Luis Obispo area. "You need to be experienced to do this work correctly. Cutting too much or too little can ruin the harvest." #WeFeedYou
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Lawmakers to Support the Abolish Super PACs Act (H.R. 2352). Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
It shouldn’t cost a single $ to retain your right to vote #SaveActTaxesVoters
Is anyone shocked?!
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We celebrate Strong Women who Refuse to Back Down!
Women like Senator Elizabeth Warren who are still fighting today for fairness, for accountability against the powerful, for us!
That’s what Courage looks like!
That’s what Strength looks like!
#SheShed
#StrongWomen
#WeWillNotBackDown
The SAVE Act isn’t about voter ID.
It is a weapon aimed at voter registration.
No passport? No birth certificate in your hand?
You are shut out. Women, students, military families, low income Americans get hit first. Republicans know it.
Call 202-224-3121. #SaveActTaxesVoters
Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.
Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.
Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.
This is what congress is advancing today 👇🏻
It’s not 2001 & we aren’t in the immediate aftermath of a major terrorist attack on US soil. The same arguments used then are being used now - if Reps don’t vote to fund a Middle East war they are betraying troops. That’s BS. We should not vote to fund Trump’s wars of aggression.
Proving yet again one of my basic rules on navigating Trumpism: He will always replace an incompetent person with someone more incompetent.
Graphic showcasing the different precinct locations in and around the Ninth District of Illinois. Copy reads: "EARLY VOTING IS OPEN across Illinois’ Ninth District" Visit katforillinois.com/VOTE to view the map!
With 12 days left, every vote counts.
You can vote at any early voting location in the county where you’re registered.
Here are the closest ones across IL-09:
Senator Elizabeth Warren doesn’t whisper the truth she drags it into the light.
Banks fear her. Corporations fight her.
Working people? We’re lucky to have her.
She came to Washington with a plan!
Holding the powerful accountable.
She’s still doing it.
#SheShed
$1.5T defense budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$300M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ for Trump to golf
$75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip
And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran?
Priorities.
Remember this when Donald Trump tells you we can’t afford health care.
They said feminism was a phase.
Gloria Steinem made it a force.
She challenged presidents.
She confronted power.
She refused to shrink so others could feel tall.
Equality was never handed to women.
It was fought for Loudly.
And we’re still fighting.
#SheShed
#WomensHistoryMonth #Feminism
Exhaustion? No time for that now! Keep moving, keep urging the Rs to leave their forums of capitulation, keep asking when we put sanity first. Vet, Follow, Repost TY. @mlipsitt.bsky.social Marcie thank you for including me with these great accounts. 👇🏼
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
